Wikidata:Status updates/2015 04 18

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-04-18.

Discussions

• Open RfA: Aldnonymous
• RfC: Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties, Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page

Events/Press/Blogs

• Redirects on Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Tool by Magnus to find wrong nationalities on Wikidata
• Where am I? (figuring out your location based on geocoordinates in Wikidata)
• Map of French national parks
• Histropedia published 5 query generator spreadsheets
• Wikimedia's monthly GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) newsletter now includes a Wikidata report. The draft for the first edition, covering April, may be edited and your contributions will be welcome.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Baseball-Reference.com minor league player ID, Baseball-Reference.com major league player ID, road number, BAnQ ID, DSH object ID, Open Food Facts food category slug, Open Food Facts food additive slug, genealogics.org personID, Kaiserhof ID, addressee, National Portrait Gallery (London) person identifier, RSL book's identifier, name in kana

Development

• Made label, description and aliases special pages easier to use
• Bene* created a new Special:ListProperties special page to list properties by data type
• Expanded our set of automated browser tests
• Made language fallbacks work in more situations and more consistently. In particular, the entity selector now uses language fallback. This should benefit especially people who want to use Wikidata in a variant such as en-gb.
• Continued work on the planned DataModel 3.0 release
• Continued discussing and documenting future calendar model support
• Continued work on our RDF generator
• Continued work on usage tracking for labels on multilingual sites
• Addshore worked on various issues regarding redirects
• Addshore worked on a special page to turn an item into a redirect
• Work on showing entity labels in edit summaries on history pages
• Implemented change dispatching based on the new usage tracking mechanism
• Fixed issue with page deletions on some Wikipedias not being reported to Wikidata
• More work on straightening out date formatting and parsing
• Fixed handling of scientific notation for quantity values
• Term box: fixed bug causing stale info to be show, and another bug causing babel languages to be ignored sometimes.
• Implemented access to other arbitrary items via the #property parser function
• Bene* implemented check to make sure two properties can not have the same alias only differing in capitalization
• Bene* worked on improving the mobile version

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item
• Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
• Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Anything to add? Please share! :)